Motor Traffic. Large Employment Factor
It has been estimated that on January 1 over 440,000 motors of all kinds were in use in the British Isles. Of these, over 254,000 are touring…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
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Maitland Motor Club
The operations of the Maitland District Motor Cycle Club for its initial year were very successful, as the annual report reveals. During that period four…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Murder. Father on Trial. London
Extraordinary interest is being taken in the trial at the Old Bailey of John Starchfield, charged with Murdering his son, William Starchfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Murder. Starchfield Acquitted. London
The Crown case against John Starchfield, charged at the Old Bailey with the murder of his son, William Starchfield, aged 7, whose body Was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Super-tramp
There are perhaps only 10 per cent, of bona-fide working men who are tramping: the other 90 per cent, are very much in the category of the super-tramp, who…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Chinese Railways. a British Concession. London
The Poking correspondent of the "Morning Post" States that a British firm has obtained the Nanking-Hunan railway concession…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Premiers in Conference. Uniform Railway Gauge. Melbourne
The question of a uniform gauge for Australian railway's occupied nearly all the time to-day of the Premiers' Conference…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uniform Railway Gauges
The discussion at the Premiers' Conference on the proposal to establish a uniform railway gauge throughout Australia was in many respects…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways and Tramways. Commissioners in Newcastle. Series of Deputations
Mr. J. Harper, the Chief Railway Commissioner, in company with Mr. J. Fraser, assistant commissioner, and several departmental officials received a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. Adamstown. Increased Tram Fares
The increase in the Tram fares on Sunday. Christmas Day, and Good Friday to likely to apply unfairly to the people, of Adamstown, if Sunday last is taken as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland District. Railway Matters. Chief Commissioner's Visit
Mr. J. Harper, Chief Commissioner for Railways, accompanied by Mr. J. Fraser, assistant commissioner, and other departmental officers, arrived at West…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Obstruction on Railway. Boy Committed
Raymond Harold Price, a youth, 16 years of age, was before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday morning, on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to the Editor. Workmen's Train
Sir,—An agitation prompted by the Cardiff Progress Committee is at present before they public with the object of getting a workmen's train to arrive in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mail Train and Trolley Collide. a Narrow Escape
A party of six railway employees, including a paymaster and his assistant, accompanied by Constable Harcombe, while riding on a trolley on the North…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motors and Motoring. the "Two-stroke" Engine
About a year ago in these notes I referred to the "two-stroke" engine as a coming force in motor design. In the interval it has made its mark, and is now…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Glebe Tram's Name
Sir,—I notice that a deputation has approached Mr. Harper, asking for the alteration of the name of the Glebe tram to Merewether. I do not think changing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Main Roads. Commission Advocated. Sydney
Mr. W. J. Fordyce shire engineer at Warren, read a paper untitled "For the Better Upkeep of Our Main Roads," at the 9th annual conference of the Local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Notes on News. London, February 27. a Railway Sensation
It is not often boat that the appointment of a new general manager for one of our great railway companies, important as such a position is caused so great a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peril on the Railways
It is only the great disasters that attract widespread public attention. A mine explosion or a railway smash focuses attention at once, inquiries are…
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Sir,—I wish to draw attention to the dangerous state of the approach to the Darvall-street bridge over Throsby Creek, which separates Wickham and Carrington,…
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